VP Harris’s domestic violence statements resurface after Doug Emhoff abuse allegations

WASHINGTON (TNND) — Vice President Kamala Harris’s earlier remarks on home violence resurfaced on social media Wednesday following reported accusations her husband, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, as soon as slapped an ex-girlfriend.

Three nameless pals of the sufferer reportedly informed TheDailyMail.com Emhoff struck the lady within the face with sufficient power to trigger her to spin round. The alleged incident reportedly came about on the 2012 Cannes Movie Pageant in France as the 2 waited for a valet.

Emhoff had reportedly been consuming on the time of the alleged incident.

Following the reported allegations, social media customers resurfaced a number of of Harris’s earlier feedback concerning home abuse. The vice chairman was amongst a number of Democrats in 2018 who responded to allegations of sexual assault and misconduct towards Supreme Courtroom Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

“Wore black right now in assist of all survivors of sexual assault or abuse,” then-Senator Harris wrote in 2018. “We can’t allow them to be silenced or ignored. #BelieveSurvivors.”

“Oooh, Kamala. This didn’t age properly,” author and guide Jennifer Oliver O’Connell wrote whereas resharing the put up Wednesday.

Harris that yr additionally posted “I stand with girls throughout each trade to say #TIMESUP on abuse, harassment, marginalization, and underrepresentation.” That put up included a graphic studying “we would like all survivors of sexual harassment, in all places, to be heard, to be believed and to know that accountability is feasible.”

John Tammes, a retired Military officer, replied to the 2018 put up Wednesday with a hyperlink to the allegations towards Emhoff. Conservative columnist Rusty Weiss additionally reshared the put up, writing “Sorry Dems – Each lady should be believed. Your guidelines. Now get to condemning [Emhoff] within the strongest potential phrases.”

“We have to take crimes towards girls and kids extra significantly — crimes like human trafficking, home violence, and youngster abuse,” Harris additionally wrote in 2017.

Considered one of Harris’s signature strains on the marketing campaign path this yr jabs former President Donald Trump over accusations towards him of previous sexual assault.

“Earlier than I used to be elected as United States senator, I used to be the elected lawyer common of California, earlier than that I used to be a courtroom prosecutor,” Harris says in a clip shared to YouTube. “In these roles, I took on perpetrators of all types [including] predators who abused girls.”

“So hear me once I say I do know Donald Trump’s kind,” she provides to applause from the viewers. “I’ll proudly put my document towards his.”

The Harris marketing campaign didn’t reply to a request for remark from The Nationwide Information Desk concerning the allegations towards Emhoff.

Trump throughout a rally in September pitched himself to girls voters as “your protector” and promised they will not “be occupied with abortion” if he’s elected in November.

“You’ll not be deserted, lonely or scared,” he stated. “You’ll not have anxiousness from the entire issues our nation has right now.”

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